Investment Terms
A share of ownership in a company.
What is a stock?
The two stock market exchanges from which you can buy stocks in the Stock Market Game.
What is NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) and NASDAQ?
MCD
What is McDonald's?
A short abbreviation used to identify a stock. It can have letters or numbers.
What is a ticker symbol?
You can earn this on cash held in your portfolio of the Stock Market Game.
What is interest?
AAPL
What is Apple?
The chance of losing all or part of the value of an investment.
What is risk?
A $5 fee charged to an investor when he or she executes a buy or sell transaction.
What is a commission fee?
HSY
What is Hershey Foods?
The strategy of spreading investments over a variety of industries, companies, markets, or securities ("not putting all your eggs in one basket").
What is diversification?
In the Stock Market Game, the transaction type 'DIV' stands for this.
What is dividend?
NFLX
What is Netflix?
An order to buy or sell stock at a particular price.
What is a limit order?
In the Stock Market Game, this is the minimum number of shares for a buy order of stock.
What is 10 shares?
F
What is Ford Motor Company?